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Posted By _kam0_ 6 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment

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Ever since Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster conceived of Superman as a counter to the Nazi Ubermensch in the 1930s, superheroes have always had an ideological meaning. The most recent comic-book hero to hit the big screen, however, seems to embody the search for meaning in contemporary US foreign policy.